The Irish standard., 1887-01-15

limbs Of The slave. Some5of the Lib
erator's admirers had compared him to
Luther, and others to Mirabsau But
Luther was the hero of a sect, and Mira
beau Of a faction, while O'Connell was
the hero of Christend dom. who had taken
his rank among the glorious immortals
who rule the nations from the skies.
|O'Ccnnell was
"a soul supreme, in each hard instance tried
Above all pain, ail anger. anu al pride.
The rage Of power, the blast OF public breath,
The lust Of i,lcre and the dread Of death"
The most remarkable objection urged
against O. 'Connell was his advocacy OF
the moral force doctrine. He said in
the name Of history g muse that O'Con-
nell's was not the only bloodless
triumph Victoria sine chade = that
lived in the records of the past. 1T was
moral force that overturned the theories
and sealed the lips of the Pagan oracles;
it was moral force that shook the
shackles from the human race, when
nine tenthsi OF the human race were in
slavery: it was moral force that nodded
the swarms Of barbarians that emerged
from the Scythian forests into the Eu-
ropean nations of the present day; it
was moral force that Offered O. barrier to
Mahonnedan invasion; it WAS moral
force that gave Ireland the most g!orl-
Gus period OF her history, when she was
the loved abode of saint and sage; in a
word, 1t was moral force that renewed
the face of the earth, brought Bismarck
to Canossa, and to-day upholds the
Church Of the Living God, and makes
the whisper Of its great and undYing
Pontiff drown the chorus raised against
it by the apostate nationsUf Christen-
dom. Viewed in this light 0'Connen
lowered a,loft q giant among the great,
prodigy, at Which the world wonders.
Did the war gods of history adopt his
policy-5hat every element OF moral
force should be tried and exhausted be-
fore appealing to physical force--the
dream Of She poet would 10 day pc "a
happy reality i. Il 3s5 81. ;5s. ss;s:
'.When The war-ar.,,n throts rlc ,ongeg ard tho
battle flags are fnrled ,iiEss ss, 1FSs
In the Parliament Of man. the feeders ton Of tie
| wori's'' N: SSssSs u SasrsI
This brought him to the present crisis
of ireland, Could the peoplesof Ire
land say that they had tried aud ex-
haus5eu all the elements Of moral force
-ztha pulpit hsm
the asf y
colt, the elastic machinery Of the 1nSSsas.
tional League, and Of public opinioslf
IIe thought there was a great dealSSof
reserved powerin the Irish pulpit. Some
ecclesiasties styled themselves men OF
rare prudenca--yery rase, indeed; be
could find nothing like il in the Scrip
lures from Moses TO St. John. All Tie
men of God loved their country we'll
and wisely. The sub)imest Of the Ia
mentations OF jeremiah the. Prophet
were those he poured forth over the
loss of his country's liberties, and the
most precious tears the Redeemer shed
were over Jerusalem when she had
ceased to be free. The French and
German clergy, high and low, stoutly
defended their respective nationalities,
and SO did the English Catholic clergy,
Ireland was the; only country OH the
face of the earth whose pulpit or trnm-
pet {in rtainsAuarters) gave forth an
uncertain sOu;M, and this was one Of
the reasons why the people were not
as well prepared for the battle as they
might be. The National press was
nobiy doing it's duty in its titanic
struggle with Dublin Castle, and was
| kindling glorious hopes of speedy de-
liyerance. Let the platform be used
more in the future than in the past and
from it let che great truth be fear1essly
proclaimed that the virtue of patriot
ism comes from God Almighty as. well
as the virtue of religion, and that no.
priest or bishop can be said to be- true
to his God who is false to his country.
| The 1'Plan OF Campaign" was. but q,
few months old, yet it was a giant in
swaddling clothes. They should never
salute a land thief Having: dealt with.
1.-THE other moral agencies heamentioned
above be asked the men Of Youghal
had they tried or exhausted all or any
of these elements Of moral force. There
were 5000 people iD that town, yet he
vas informed there were notmore than
i100of them belonging to the az ational
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